Re: RPG as Web service

I agree with Nathan. Trying to figure out which way to go is very
"hair-pulling".

Sharon

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On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 2:28 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RPG as Web service

From: "Blalock, Bill"
All the Java code and XML is generated by the wizard, you
never see it.

Hmmm, until you need to debug it...

I've been following this discussion, which is split across this list and
Midrange-L, and I don't quite understand IBM's positioning of IWS, vs
tooling in WDSC, vs tooling in RDi, for web services, except that
they're all Java based, and provide mechanisms for calling RPG programs
and procedures.

I read Shannon O'Donnell's article in IT Jungle, for example, which
described the tooling in WDSC for generating and testing web service
servlets, pcml, and program call beans, which make calls to RPG programs
and procedures. The tooling will even generate EAR files, for
deployment to WAS.

It would be helpful if you could describe your experience with IWS.
What type of web services you're deploying, for example.

Thanks,

Nathan.